Barry
(Barring)
French: fascé, Latin: transverse fasciolatus
The division of the field or charge by horizontal lines into six or eight equal parts or bars of alternate tinctures. When divided into ten or more equal partitions the term barruly is more commonly used. When the lines of the bars are divided in the manner of the various partition lines, the term is then modified accordingly into barry-nebuly, barry-wavy, etc. as the case may be.
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See also Partition Lines.
Barry bendy: A field divided by lines into an equal number of of parts, barways and bendways, with alternating tinctures.
Barry bendy sinister: A field divided by lines into an equal number of of parts, barways and bendways sinister, with alternating tinctures.
Barry chevronny: divided by lines in the form of chevrons intersected by barry lines.
Barry lozengy, Barry bendy lozengy, Barry lozengy counterchanged, Barry point in point, or Counter-triangle: A partition of the field barways and bendways, both dexter and sinister, forming lozenges divided into alternating tinctures. It is also sometimes blazoned barry indented, the one into the other, and the more obscure barry per fret is mentioned by Berry and others.
Barry per pale counterchanged, or Counter barry, or Counter fessy (French: contrefascé): A partition when the field is divided barways of several pieces, and again by a perpendicular line paleways, counterchanging the tinctures.
Barry pily: A field divided into an equal number of pieces in the form of piles, the number of which should be expressed, placed horizontally across the shield . If the division is an odd number, as for instance seven, it would then be more properly blazoned three piles barways, that number appearing to issue from the dexter or sinister side, though some heralds would then term it barry pily of seven.
Barry pily of six might also be called paly of six pieces traverse. It is by some termed per pale indented traverse the escutcheon, and also per pale indented, point in point.
Billety counter-billety: A variation of chequy where the field is divided barry and paly but with the divisions of the former double the width of the latter. The term barry-paly is sometimes encountered in old heraldic texts, which, if composed of an equal number of partition lines barways and paleways, would render the field chequy.
